Synopsis
Teen misfits Roma, Toto, and Drop call themselves the “Don Glees,” an informal name for their backyard adventures. One day, when the trio gets blamed for a nearby forest fire, they set off into the woods to prove their innocence. As disaster strikes their expedition, tensions flare between the friends as they realize that growing up has taken them on wildly different paths in life.
Director Atsuko Ishizuka follows up her critically acclaimed series A Place Further Than the Universe with her first original feature film. With luminescent animation and lush backdrops, Goodbye, Don Glees! is a tender coming-of-age story about the fearlessness of being young and the bittersweet journey of self-discovery.
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Bonus Features
- Interview with Director Atsuko Ishizuka
- Trailers
Disc Specifications
- Run-time
- 94 min
- Aspect Ratio
- 1.78:1
- Release Date
- December 27, 2022
- Region
- A/1
- Rating
- PG
- Production Date
- 2022
- Audio
- English, Japanese
- Subtitles
- English, English SDH, Spanish, French
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Characters
Roma
A lovesick teen who's stuck working on his family's farm in the rural countryside.
Toto
A high-strung know-it-all and Roma's best friend. He goes to high school in Tokyo to pursue his dreams of becoming a doctor.
Drop
The ever-optimistic heart of the group with limitless energy and a knack for mischief.
Tivoli
Roma's former classmate and crush with a love for photography.
Meet the Director
Atsuko Ishizuka
Atsuko Ishizuka began making many films while attending the Aichi University of the Arts. She joined Madhouse in 2004 and worked as a production assistant while taking on her first job as director for a music video for Tsuki no Waltz (The Moon Waltz) on NHK television's Minna no Uta (Everyone's Songs). Ishizuka went on to direct many works at the acclaimed Studio Madhouse, including the television series No Game, No Life, Hanayamata, Prince of Stride: Alternative, her first theatrical film No Game, No Life the Movie: Zero in 2017, and the full-length original animated series, A Place Further Than The Universe in 2018.
About GKIDS
GKIDS is the producer and distributor of award-winning feature animation for both adult and family audiences. Since 2010, the company has scored an astounding 12 Best Animated Feature Oscar® nominations with The Secret of Kells in 2010, A Cat in Paris and Chico & Rita in 2012, Ernest & Celestine in 2014, The Tale of The Princess Kaguya and Song of the Sea in 2015, Boy and the World and When Marnie Was There in 2016, My Life as a Zucchini in 2017, The Breadwinner in 2018, Mirai in 2019, and Wolfwalkers in 2021.
GKIDS handles North American distribution for the famed Studio Ghibli library of films, one of the world's most coveted animation collections with titles Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, Princess Mononoke and others; as well as the critically acclaimed television series, Neon Genesis Evangelion.
GKIDS is also the founder and host of ANIMATION IS FILM, the annual LA-based film festival which embraces the highest aspirations of animation as a cinematic art form, and is a vocal advocate for filmmakers who push the boundaries of the medium to its fullest range of artistic expressions. www.gkids.com
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